Have you ever met a person who had an answer for everything? Or if not an answer, at least all the most philosophical questions. The sort of person who could sweep you up with them as they told you tales wonderful, terrible, uplifting, and foreboding? A person who you really wanted to believe in, and sometimes did.

A storyteller whose myths made the world safe – made you special.

Religion is a great seductress. Attributing qualities; ignoring rationalities. Religion is an explanation of the world as it pertains to its consumer.

Ever adaptable, religion evolves and contorts itself. The legitimacy of its interpretations resting on the shoulders of its lineage. And when truths of the past become inconvenient obstacles to the present, religion shifts, diverts, ignores, reinterprets.

Religion has a position. A perspective. Religion is not confused or wishy washy. Religion has answers. Religion is the sort of person you want to listen to, follow, emulate, knowing that you can never truly measure up.

Religion is aspirational and awe inspiring, but a great deceiver none the less.